Racial Relations ActAC 1.2 The Impact of Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Considerations to the Recruitment and Selection Process The process of recruiting new employees is very complex and often extends beyond the usual human resource practices in recruitment. For instance, the entire process is bound by various laws that can significantly affect the organizations progress in recruitment. Nevertheless, these laws are aimed at helping the organizations by making the recruitment process fair and equal for all prospective employees, eliminating discrimination on any basis, and ensuring that the right of individuals to work within the UK is respected (Price, 2000). The legal framework covering recruitment affects all the stages or steps in the recruitment and employment process as well as guiding the organization in managing the employees after hiring them. Apart from the legal and regulatory issues in recruitment, there are also various ethical considerations that need to be brought to mind whenever recruiting people in an organization. These ethical values can affect the companys image if ignored completely. Some of the most prominent laws and regulations governing the recruitment process include Sex Discrimination Act, Racial Relations Act, Employment Equality Regulations, and Disability Discrimination Act (Hersey, Blanchard and Johnson, 2008). These laws cover a broad area of issues in recruitment, including maters to do with payment or compensation for employees, the messages passed over in job adverts, the methods used in the selection process, and the sources of recruitment. In this regard, the law aims to step out discrimination of people on any basis including sex, religion or race. Therefore, throughout the recruitment process, the organization has to ensure that there is not any form of discrimination, either through discriminatory adverts or dubious selection methods that undermine other people who may be equally qualified. Given this scenario, the laws and regulatory frameworks covering recruitment are both advantageous and disadvantageous. For instance, the legal framework ensures that each person has an equal chance in being selected and hired. It also ensures that both men and women or any other minority cohorts have a fair chance of getting employment. Furthermore, the laws help to address historical injustices to marginalized groups such as women by stipulating that there should be equal pay for equal work amount done (Schultz, and Schultz, 2010). The law also ensures that organizations take the recruitment process seriously by maintaining high moral and ethical standards throughout the process.